Ko (kana)

こ, in hiragana or コ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent. The shape of these kana comes from the kanji 己.

This character may be supplemented by a dakuten; it becomes ご in hiragana, ゴ in katakana and go in Hepburn romanization. Also, the pronunciation is affected, transforming into in initial positions and varying between  and  in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ko in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation.

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